Quotes with not-so-great

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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Robert Southey What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Antonio Porchia What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Sophocles What you cannot enforce, do not command.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Boris Pasternak What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Zig Ziglar What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Audre Lorde What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Don DeLillo What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
    Source: Falling Man (2011) 73
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bonnie Bassler What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Andy Warhol What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Hermann Broch What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • Alice Walker What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Henry Ford What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources - to do something about them.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Satchel Paige What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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